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'The Crucifixion' by Mikhail Nesterov (1908) oil on copper.

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Washington Phillips, “Jesus Is My Friend / What Are They Doing In Heaven Today,” December 5, 1928.

#hymns #folk hymns

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Final Poem in Some Poems by Paul Klee, trans. by Anselm Hollo

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Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him.

St. Francis of Assisi

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love is more important than faith

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“The road to God is paved with laughter at the self. The road to Hell is paved with laughter at others”

—  Contentions Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad

#hes right

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did u seriously just equate physical appearance with morality in front of the hoes

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Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910)

Grace Hoops, 1872

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We are called to love the world as God loves the world. Loving this deeply, this openly, will break our hearts. When our hearts are broken wide-open, if we are willing to remain anchored in love, we find our capacity to love magnified. It is a cycle of life and brokenness and life renewed perpetually. Our calling is nothing less than this.

Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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Kindness is love with its work boots on

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“The goal of the Christian religion is not the idolizing of Christ, not christolatry, but that we all “are in Christ,” as the mystical expression goes, that we have a part in the life of Christ. This savior is a wounded healer, and he heals so that we may become as he is. Be as he is, laugh as he laughs, weep as he weeps. Heal the sick, even those who without knowing it have contracted the great neuroses of our society, who knows no mercy with themselves and their children when they consent to the nuclear state and technologies inimical to life. To feed the hungry means to do away with militarism. To bless the children means to leave the trees standing for them.”

Dorothee Soelle | Theology for Skeptics

#this book IS very good always recommend

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i really like the book of proverbs because on one hand you've got your poetic musings on god and wisdom and on the other hand you've got the very practical advice of "if you loudly greet your neighbor early in the morning, he will think of it as a curse"

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Every theological statement must be a political statement as well.

Dorothea Sölle

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. . . God's incarnation in Christ is also going on in everyone, everywhere, at all times.

David Bentley Hart, in conversation with Michael Robbins

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Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

Mathew 6:26-27

Gratefulness is used by capitalism to create a sense of false scarcity amongst the people. We are told to be grateful for what we have in comparison to what others don't have. We are told we must protect and horde our "blessings" lest they be taken from us, because there isn't enough to go around.

The truth is we should be grateful because God can sustain everyone. We are abundant in blessings. We have a capacity to feed every mouth, to house every body, to make sure every person is cared for. We can not individually possess God's blessings, they belong to all of us.

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psalm 33:4-5 (msg)